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The tree of Natura 2000 was planted in front of the Representative Office of the European Commission today
29.04.2009
A tree was planted today by the enthusiastic citizens who supported the European Environmental network in 2007 by protesting in front of the Council of Ministers in Sofia, Bulgaria for nine months, using artistic meanings to remind the Bulgarian minsters that they have to work urgently on the approval of Natura 2000. The tree lived in a pot for almost two years waiting for the entire range of the network to be approved by the ministers but as this did not happen so far the concerns for it's comfort in the pot grew larger and the environmentalists decided to gift it as a mascot to the European Commission Representative office in Bulgaria.
“This we do as thanksgiving to the European institutions who are our main foreign partner in the effort to implement some common sense in the national environmental legislation and the control over the proper observance of this laws.”, say environmentalists.
Replanting the tree happens just a day before a group of petitioners will have a hearing on the severe violations over the European environmental laws in Bulgaria – including serious insufficiency of the environmental network, abuse with power from the national authorities, illegal overbuilding in Natura 2000 and numerous counterfeited documents and illegal approvals from state institutions. Andrey Kovachev from Bakans Wildlife Society, Vera Petkanchin – from Citizens for Rila and Nelly Arabdzhieva – from Green Balkans will represent the petitioner on the hearing in the European Parliament on 30 april 2009.
Hopefully their mission will accelerate the triggering of procedures against the violations. The situation in Bulgaria is very worrying and the illegal investors together with the politicians in the country believe that their business plans will be long finished before any counter reaction comes from Europe and the only chance is that this plans go wrong thanks to the numerous missions from environmental NGOs and the pressure from green MEPs in EP.
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